Job 40:4

Job confesses he is of small account and lays his hand on his mouth, having no answer for God. Confronted by God, Job falls silent in humility.

Cross-references · 30

• Prov 30:32“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
• Job 29:9The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
• Job 21:5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
• Job 42:6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
• Judg 18:19They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
• Ezra 9:6and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
• Gen 18:27Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
• Zech 2:13Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
• Luke 18:13But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
• Luke 15:18–19I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
• Luke 5:8But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”
• 1 Tim 1:15The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
• Ps 39:9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
• Gen 32:10I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
• Mic 7:16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
• Isa 6:5Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
• Job 9:31–35yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
• Dan 9:7Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
• Dan 9:5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
• Hab 2:20But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
• Ps 51:4–5Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
• Neh 9:33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
• Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Isa 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
• Ezra 9:15Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”
• 2 Sam 24:10David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
• Job 16:21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
• Job 31:37I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.
• Job 23:4–7I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
• 1 Kgs 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

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